isua-isnscatalog-1889-1890-048

Description:	INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 47been taken to promote greater thoroughness and higher efficiency in the institutions work. In former years students were per¬ mitted to carry regularly five studies, giving them twenty-five lessons per week. Under this plan the lesson or recitation periods were forty minutes in length. A readjustment of the course of study was made which fixed the maximum number of studies for the student to pursue at one time as four, and extended the reci¬ tation periods to fifty-five minutes, making twenty hours work per week the maximum required. This change has been found bene¬ ficial, enabling students to concentrate their attention upon fewer subjects, and thus acquire a more thorough mastery of them.One of the courses of study has been extended to a full four years course,, in order to provide a realm of academic work that would prepare students for the higher common school work of the State.It is not the function of the State Normal School to prepare teachers for colleges and universities. It does not attempt to do this. Its province is to give the most thorough and efficient preparation possible for all grades of common school work—in¬ struction and management of district schools, superintending county schools, high school teaching, and superintending town and city schools.To these phases of education it addresses its whole energy. On this ground, and for this purpose alone, it is believed, the State maintains the Institution. It is the policy of the present management of the school to raise gradually the standard of ad¬ mission and to require from year to year a higher standard of excellence in all the work done. As a final test of the students fitness to graduate from the Institution it is required, by a rule of the Board of Trustees, that all candidates for graduation shall hold a county license to teach in Indiana for a period of not less than two years, said license to have been issued within a period of five years next preceding the end of the current school year.It may be stated that the excellent moral tone and character of the school are fully up to the standard of previous years. A large majority of the students in attendance are self-support¬ ing. They are prompt, industrious, persevering and earnest in their efforts to acquire an education. They come largely
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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